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Word: downes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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For, as it comes to all Navy men at 64, often as cruelly and as indiscriminately as Death, retirement last week beached the old Admiral. Hobbyless, Harry Yarnell settled down to read books on the Orient, twiddle his brown thumbs, watch the sailboats off Newport, R. I.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Beached | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Dominating the neighborhood, the Center has drawn in tenants like a sponge, emptied offices in many another building. Rented was 85% of 5,114,000 square feet of floor space, its two miles of shop frontage. Sixteen hundred companies and their subsidiaries, 25,000 people, lived their business and professional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Monument | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

What moved Joe Stalin and his Earl Browder to doff their democratic whiskers was the Russo-German pact and the consequent reaction against the U. S. S. R., in which Franklin Roosevelt shared last week (see p. 15). The Browder speech last week was the first realistic thing which he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Veil Torn | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

When all this had simmered down to a broth of truth, something like this remained: The Japanese were greatly impressed by Ambassador Grew's speech. The Government wanted to do something about it at once. But the Army (which usually prevails) wanted first to install Puppet-elect Wang Ching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Waver Week | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

There are only two airlines in the world which cancel flights when the weather is too good. They are both in China-Eurasia Aviation Corp. (partly German-owned) and China National Aviation Corp. (partly owned by Pan American Airways)-and the reason for their idiosyncrasy is that their courses lie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: New Route, New Factory | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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